What Users Say About Pizzicato...

"I
like that Pizzicato is so different from a midi sequencer that it makes
me think different about music and my compositions. Thank you, I
think Pizzicato will help me get to the next level. I finished
composing three different CDs in December and realized I was bored with
my musical style so I started looking for a program which would make me
think different. I am glad I purchased yours. On Friday last week
a small record label asked me for three songs and I am going to try to
do the the foundation work in Pizzicato."

Philip Thomas (East
Dummerston, VT, United States) - Lead music engraver Oxford University
Press, New York Office, 1999-2005. Currently working as a freelance
engraver for the finest classical music publishers in the U.S. and Europe.

"I
have used the Pizzicato program for a number of years now for its
extensive composition environment which I find to be incredibly fast and
intuitive to work in. My flute quartet "The Wissahickon at Dusk," which
recently premiered on Maine Public Radio in the U.S., was created using
Pizzicato. I enthusiastically and whole-heartedly recommend this
brilliant program. And Dominique's great technical support too!"

"Anyone looking for affordable music notation software will find that
Pizzicato has powerful and comprehensive features. But what really sets
Pizzicato apart is its vast array of compostion tools which are simple
to use yet profound in scope and depth. Dominique Vandenneucker has
designed a brilliant program which is sure to grow in stature and
popularity as more users around the world spread the word about this
remarkable software."

Laurent Haye, coordinator at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels

"I use Pizzicato every day. It is an excellent tool for all musicians
from the amateur to the professional. It is mainly in the domains of sheet
music publishing and creation of music files that I know this program, but
I am always surprised by the power of the other tools offered to the user.
Honestly I just could not do without it. And thank you to Dominique who
always listens to his "Pizzicatists" so that the software is developed on
the basis of the requests and interests of everyone."

Our team tested your Pizzicato Professional under new
Windows 7 operating system. You must know that your software passed by
this test and we inform you that your software received the "Windows 7
Compatible" award.

George Zubor, The ForteDownloads.com team

Roy Galloway (Lake
Country, BC, Canada) - Chorist

"I have been intending to write this letter
for some time now to tell you how much I enjoy my beginner's version
3.3.1 of the Pizzicato program. I sing with a men's 4 part choir. Since
I don't sight read music I surfed the internet to find a program that
would allow me to type in the music that I was to sing, and play it back
so that I could more easily learn my part. I really didn't think that I
would find anything suitable.

Then voila, your web site with demos of your
wonderful program, showing what it would do and how that it does it. I
have now typed in nearly all of my music and I easily learn my parts by
listening to the tireless piano player that you have given me. The
versatility and ease of use of this program never ceases to amaze me and
the fact that a manual and a complete music course accompanies it is
just super. I am also, so pleased with the quick and accurate answers
that you have given me to the very few questions that I needed to ask. I
also enjoy the free newsletter.

The choir, now has good copies of their music in
all 4 parts and I have been able to make CD's to facilitate them in
learning their parts. I just wanted you to know that your program has
made learning to sing so much easier and more enjoyable for me and my
choir mates. Thank you !"

"I am playing and composing music for years. I took
piano lessons during 5 years between 11 and 16. When I was 18 years old
I learnt guitar on my own. At this time I composed my first songs, music
and lyrics. To conserve my music, I wrote songs on paper, lyrics and
chords, and recorded them on tracks. At the end of the nineties, I
searched for a software which could help me to write my scores. The only
ones I found were unaffordable. Then I discovered Pizzicato. At first
use, I was dazzled ! And for this period, I have always appreciated
improvements of the software."

Zlatoje Pajcic (Germany) - Zlatoje
Pajcic is a composer and publisher in Hamburg.

"I was born in 1957 in Sombor (Yugoslavia),
where I started my musical career studying harmony, counterpoint and
composition with Prof. Milos Lalosevic, later studying the Tamburitza
with Prof. Lazar Malagurski in Subotica, as well as playing clarinet in
middle school. I have several TV-performances with Tamburitza orchestras
I have organized, and in 1987 I had a 6 month engagement in Copenhagen.
Since 1991 I have been a freelance musician living in Hamburg, and I am
currently working on an extensive series of tutorial books for
Tamburitza, played alone and in groups. I have so far completed 10
volumes. I am also writing arrangements and transcriptions for these
instruments, and have founded "Tamburitza Publications" to publish sheet
music for Tamburitza.

Pzzicato is an expert system. We have 3 levels
of scorewriting programs:

1. Scorewriter - These programs are for writing
notes and publishing, but no generating of anything or processing of
musical data. Some of them can recognize the chords. None have graphical
editors.

2. Scorewriter -scorewriting, and
composing-arranging features - These programs can have some intelligent
functions like chord recognition, intelligent paste on simple basis, for
example to "split voices". But we must duplicate the stave or other
elements so many times or be so careful not to delete something that it
is annoying.

3. Expert systems - That is the highest level of
full musical workstation seen from all aspects. Pizzicato is one of
them. Only two such software we can find on the market. Pizzicato is the
most modern software for: scorewriting, composing, music editing, music
processing, experimenting, chord recognition, generating the score based
on chord recognition and using the custom libraries, easy combining of
several scores to play together on the same chord progression, very big
scores with unlimited number of staves, playing ornaments and grace
note, graphical editors, work with many documents at the same time, very
good manual, very accurate MIDI, up to sixteen MIDI in/outs supported
and much more...

I think, Mr. Dominique
Vandenneucker should warn the people who just purchased Pizzicato with
the words "If you just purchased Pizzicato, don't forget to eat
something and get some sleep in advance because you will not be able to
leave it quickly!"

Mona Lei (Switzerland) - Composer, born in Bucarest
(Rumania). Mona Lei has been living for more than 20 years in Geneva. She
is a professional musician. In the eighties, she obtained the music
teacher certificate (music theory, harmony, counterpoint, etc.) at the
Music Conservatory of Bucarest.

"While searching for a music notation software to transcribe the
manuscript of one of my classical compositions, I was informed about the
existence of the website www.arpegemusic.com, by a friend working in
computers. For my first experimentations with Pizzicato I realized that
it had a lot of qualities: fast access to music writing technique,
practical aspect of this technique, easy to use and in the same time a
real possibility to exploit musical richness.

Really, what I immediately appreciated (compared to other softwares I
used before) was the natural of Pizzicato. It was like using a paper
music sheet, a pencil and an eraser. The big advantage is that the
further I advance in my creation, the further I can modify the structure
of my work, adding or erasing measures, staves, pages, instruments, etc.
I have total freedom and I feel grateful to Pizzicato for that.

Now I work without keyboard, because I compose by playing piano.
Then, I transcribe and listen to the result on the computer. Using this
technique I recently wrote the cantate "To Jean-Sébastien" (18 minutes),
a work which was interpreted in September 26th 2005 in Zürich under the
aegis of UNICEF by the Terpsychords quartet, the OSR 1st oboist, Jerome
Capeille, the pianist Anne Boëls and soloists of the Zürich Great
Orchestra.

P.S. : For those who still have difficulties to write triplets and
other rhythmic sequences, I had some difficulties too, but after some
days of practice, there was nothing to it."

I have been intended to write this long time ago. I
happen to get your web page through searching the internet looking for a
kind of software that teaches easy music in general. During search in
the internet I happen to find other software which I bought and tried it
never came to my satisfaction. Later I found your Pizzicato software and
decided to try with no hesitation, I grabbed your software. At the time
I had no knowledge of music except the basics, always dreaming to write
my own songs. Now I write my score or key it from my keyboard with the
option you offered. Plus reading your guide lines and following your
newsletters really help me a lot and the good thing is the software is
affordability is amazing. Gradually, I have come to learn music and
approach music from your music software starting from Light to Beginner
and now Professional. The software is good and affordable plus the
support is prompt. Thank you for all your help I really appreciate it.

Girma M., Arlington VA, USA

I want to write all the wonderful music I have collected from so many
years ago when I took music lessons. Then I will save all this
music to a disk. Last night I imported the rhythm for the song I am
working on (BIAB) and then I dragged the instruments to the top of the
BIAB rhythm in Pizzicato. Everything worked perfectly! Once
again...thank you so much for all the help you have been giving me.

Nancy

Thank you for your swift response ! You have a
great customer service.

Joseph B., Kenneson GA, USA

I enjoy your newsletter, which contains much useful
information. I especially like your use of examples, which are very
helpful. Even presentation on subjects which are very basic contain
thoughts I find useful.

Jack P. Gresham OR, USA

Thanks for a great update.

Vincent M., Cleveleys, United Kingdom

Thank you! I had been clicking on the note -- that
must have been the problem. I appreciate your great service and
patience!

Rosalyn S., Mesa AZ, USA

Thank you for your kind assistance. I wish more
companies were as helpful as yours.

Neil R., U.S.A.

Thank you for your quick answer. Quality
after-sales service. Cheers.

Charles P., France

I wanted to thank you for your ability to react in
support, you are really positive and efficient.

Laurent R., Belgium

I thank you for your counsels and your
availability, patience and I appreciate your tenacity to help your
custumers when they have technical problems.

Jean-Marc P., France

Thank you very much to remind me the basic user
manual. I do not know why but I would absolutely want to find shapes in
the symbols palette. Your advices are precious as always.

Remy J., France

I use Pizzicato Beginner 3.5 and I am satisfied by
the product.

Charles P., France

Thank you very much for your precious help. I
installed the Plugin on my other music software S. and it works. Thank
you for your after-sales service.

Laurent R., France

Thank to Pizzicato, I created music pieces and put
them on a website which offer them to those who like instrumental music
and most especially guitar. I would like to thank you.

Andres C., France

Pizzicato is helpful for pedagogy and the youngest
pupils can use it is playful. And it is easy to comment. That I do with
success !

Jacques R., France

The
videos are well done.

J.-L.
Roldan, France

Thank
you for the amazing update of Pizzicato Composition Professional !

J.
Douma, The Netherlands

I
am a member of Helsinki Philharmonics (Corno Inglese / Oboe) in which I
have been playing over 30 years. Many finnish composers have dedicated
works for me. In the past I wrote them by hand, today with a computer.
Your program seems an interesting option in this field of notation
(music typing keyboard is fun and handy).

A. Lindgrèn,
Finland

I like Pizzicato, consider the complexity worth the
flexibility in what I am able to do with it, and I'm mostly very pleased
with the scores I've created with Pizzicato so far. Thank you again.

L. Vasil, United States

You may remember that you gave me a lot of support
after I purchased Pizzicato Solo. I was making a small book of
well-known children's tunes for my recorder pupils. This is now finished
and has been very successful. The children are practising every week and
gave a very nice concert at Christmas. Thanks for all your help.

Hilary A., United Kingdom

I would like to thank you
for the two latest updates: positioning the extent of
crescendo/diminuendo and small graphic problem with trills and the
related notes. What I like in your software is that it is constantly
updated and evolving according to the tastes of users. I pass the whole
hours to work with Pizzicato - this is rather nights that I should say
because the concentration in silence is beneficial to the composition.

Robert H., Brussels, Belgium

We warmly thank you for
your speed to answer and also for your sense of aid and the clear
instruction.

Alexander B., University of
Poitiers, France

Congratulations for your
software, I look forward the counterpoint version ! It's too great to
create in polyphony with the personal touch of Pizzicato.

Jean-Toni G., Martinique

Pizzicato is a well of
informations.

Jean-Albert S., France

Thank
you very much for your detailed answer. I could then install my MIDI
keyboard easily and encode the notes quickly. I will be able to test the
different versions of Pizzicato and know the one I will buy.

J.-P.
Psaltopoulos, France

I
am enchanted by Pizzicato.

X.
Mouquin, France

Thank
you for the care you take to constantly improve your wonderful program
that gives me such pleasure.

A.Martinez,
France

I
take this opportunity to express my satisfaction (after 4 hours) on the
usability of your software.

R.Mansia,
France

I
am a choir director and these products will make me move very quickly
during rehearsals in part with the 4 registers.I just send to my voice
choir respective midi file via email. Extraordinary! Also I take the
original partition, I rewrite on Pizzicato with great ease and speed, I
make a layout clearer and more visible. It's really wonderful.

T.
Grazien, Switzerland

You
made a great leap in improving Pizzicato: I know it takes time.

R.Hoybergen,
France

Laurent Calomne (Belgium) - Laurent is author-composer in
all styles of instrumental music (especially new-age and film music) and
French varieties. He is also a percussionist, clarinetist and saxophonist.

"I intensively use Pizzicato to write my music scores but this
software also helps me when I must for example transcribe an orchestral
score written for 3 percussionists so that one musician can play it, or
when I must transpose or even when I must extract parts from a conductor
score.

What is also interesting in Pizzicato, from my point of view, is that
is is a belgian music notation software : it is rare and the technical
support is effective, which is not necessarily the case with other
existing programs where we often get no answer, no appropriate answer or
answers that come too late.

Indeed, I work with Pizzicato Professional since 1996, (release 1). I
could participate with other users to the development of release 2. I
could follow the evolution of the software but also influence the tool
so that it can bring answers to all musicians working in various ways,
music styles and areas.

When I say customized, it is on several levels. First, when I write
music, it starts with ideas here and there, on paper on mini-disk.
Pizzicato helps me to gather all these "pieces" on one document
containing all the scores I want. I can really create my working space,
my desk with all my big or small pieces of composition that I can see in
the main window and that I can copy, paste, duplicate,...

Working in jazz, chord notation is very important for me. But even in
specialized harmony books, I sometimes do not find the chord notation I
need or the scale I mean. Pizzicato helps me to easily and definitely
create that notation and also to reproduce it in notes and in MIDI. Page
setup tools and graphic tools also help to customize the software and
make it your.

All this with very intuitive tools which means fast execution. And
when I speak about easy of use, my son (13 years old) - who practises
music since he is 6 - use Pizzicato Professional 3 without consulting
the manual and it is quite rare that he asks me questions. And when I
hear what he writes, I think he is better than I am!!!".

Alain Lumbroso (France) - Clarinetist.

"Seventeen
years
ago, I created with my wife a classical chamber music association for
amateur musicians: Chords-Music. We give more than 10 concerts a year in
Paris and in province. We use to play transciptions because sometimes
the "original" musician misses to play a part and thus we replace his
instrument by another one. So the Pizzicato music notation software
combined to SharpEye2 is an essential tool for our activity."

Godelieve Cuylits (Belgium) - Former nurse, Godelieve
began to learn music theory at the age of 53 and after that followed
courses to play the clarinet. She is now 2nd clarinet of the group
"Instrumental ensemble of GREZ-PECROT" conducted by Alex Callens. Here are
her comments about Pizzicato:

"Pizzicato
is
for me a source of wellbeing. At social level first, this software
brought me an occupation in my life after I retired, a reason to get up
from my chair and make my brain work, also an occasion to have more
human contacts. Thanks to Pizzicato, I feel less isolated and more
active.

At the musical level, Pizzicato helps me to learn better, to read and
write music easily. I work 2 hours a day with Pizzicato on my computer.
At the beginning, I was using Pizzicato Beginner 2. Then I upgraded to
Pizzicato Professional 2. Now I use Pizzicato Professional 3 and the
SharpEye scanning software.

The result? I encode music as a pro! I am transposing, reducing and
helping our conductor to write his own arrangements on music sheets. I
am also responsible of our musical library.

Finally, I mention the great quality of the Pizzicato technical
support. Mr Dominique Vandenneucker, designer of Pizzicato, always
responded quickly to my e-mails, with kindness and patience. I never
felt ridiculous. That is why I recommend Pizzicato to everyone."

Michel Buffier (Limoges - France), trombone.

"I
started
to learn the tenor slide trombone as well as music theory. Equiped with
Pizzicato Beginner 3, I think that software is a very complete tool for
music composition.

At the instrumental practise level, I appreciate that Pizzicato plays
study scores for trombone. It helps me to memorize rhythms and melodies,
which facilitates the instrumental play.

I would make a similar comment for the theory: exercises about
rhythms are better understood and memorized after listening to
Pizzicato.

I like to write beautiful scores with Pizzicato, clear scores that I
can print. I found a blooming in music and Pizzicato increased it."

Anne Cadart (Saint André de Corcy, France) - Choir
conductor

"The Civrieux choir was created in 1979.
Then it became "Musica", located in Saint André de Corcy. It is under my
direction since 1996. My chorists love to sing "a capella", but also
like to meet every week.

My main interest in Pizzicato is to elaborate
polyphonic music scores for my choir and now it is great because I
actually master the software!"

Marc Figus (France) - Clarinet, recorder, guitar.

"I
am
living in Moval in France. I play clarinet, recorder and guitar. I sing
in a choir as a bass and I help our conductor directing classical
pieces. Music is my main entertainment and I spend at least one hour and
a half a day.

Pizzicato helps me to transcribe pieces I learn for the choir or for
the recorder (which I practise for a very long time) and so to
understand the melodies and rhythms directly, avoiding errors difficult
to get rid of later. Beginning with music composition, I can compensate
my lacks with Pizzicato and that is why I recommend it to every music
beginner."

"My employment is to compose music for liturgy. Musician for a long
time, when I began to use a computer in 2003, I directly needed
Pizzicato Professional. I thus appreciated the very complete Pizzicato
manual, including the lessons about computer basics. For me it was a
real advantage.

I see two other advantages: the price of Pizzicato is reasonable (in
comparison with other products) and the technical support by e-mail is
very quick and performing and often helped me."

"Pizzicato helps me to play in solo while adding chords and other
arrangements to my live music.

The
Pizzicato music notation software is in my opinion the best music editor
and score maker. Indeed it is powerful and user-friendly, so it is a
pleasant tool as well for professionals as for beginners. Even if you
only know a few music theory, Pizzicato guides you and holds you "by the
hand" when you create your own music or arrange known scores. The user
help is quite simple and shows you a lot of examples.

For me, Pizzicato is more than a tool, it is also a "streak of
eccentricity" in my life, because it helps me to express myself fully
when I need it. My friends are astonished by my compositions, plenty of
them want to copy them and some even want to buy them... I bought
Pizzicato 2 months ago and my retired life is now more pleasant.

A last thing : the online customer help is perfect and quick: you
often receive an answer the same day and the conceptor really listens to
you to develop the software."

Jean-Claude Mariotte (Alignan-du-Vent,
France) - Second violin.

"At the age of 67, I became second violin in an amateur
orchestra, even if I had dropped violin during more than 40 years. The
first day, I could only play some measures and thought that I would
never go further. But Pizzicato encouraged me to continue, helped me to
understand that I could continue. Now, with this software, I am encoding
the scores that I must play (it is easy with a little habit) and I
record the music result on CD-rom (while beginning with a very slow
tempo, than faster and faster, until I reach the tempo asked by the
conductor). Like that I can work my scores at home, playing while
listening to the CD-rom. I made amazing progresses and love now
repetitions and concerts."

Urs Steiger (Prilly, Switzerland) - Slide trombone.

"Pizzicato became my necessary companion for my musical work. I am
playing slide trombone in some amateur bands. The scores we receive are
often of poor quality, then I switch on my computer and I transcribe
them for myself and for other musicians who appreciate their quality."

Dominique Dorlet (Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, France) - Choir

"I
sing
in the "Luy Choir", a choir of 50 persons which was created in 1998. I
do not know music theory, so Pizzicato helps me transcribe scores to
learn the different pieces of our repertoire. It also permits me to
create more legible scores."

Bruno Heureux (Hannut, Belgium) -
Author-composer-performer.

"Pizzicato
presents a lot of interests to me. For example, with that software I can
write the music and the lyrics of my songs.

And the MIDI aspects that I am now discovering assure me that I still
can discover many aspects of this concise, simple, professional and
user-friendly software."

Robert C. (France) - Choir conductor

"I conduct the "Choir of the Singing Thursdays", composed mainly of
retired persons (we are about 50). I choosed Pizzicato to neatly
transcribe old or difficult to read scores, so as to better study them
during rehearsals. Congratulations also for the precious technical
support. Your reaction is fast and we never feel alone."

René Comte-Gaz - France - Conductor

"Pizzicato is a pleasant software, of
easy and powerful use… The tools palettes are well designed and the
tools are not locked and I can duplicate them, move and even modify
tools. The handbook is very clear and precise. And the program designer
improves it. I use Pizzicato within the framework of my orchestrations
for the symphony orchestra of Ste-Cecile in Nemours (France) where I am
an assistant chief and the orchestra Ensemble Tuning fork in
Villemandeur where I am the musical director. I think that Pizzicato is
what is the best: it is a wonder."

"I am a 61 year old beginning piano student in the
U.S. and I received my first copy of your beginner software yesterday. I
am delighted to have found your software. My teacher has
encouraged me to write some music and to arrange songs that I like in a
much simpler form so that I can play at my level. Your software is
perfect for me. I am only using the shareware version now, but from your
website I know that as I get more proficient at your software and my
music, I will be able to continue to buy and use your more sophisticated
versions of software. That is very encouraging to me, as are your
continued advances in vectorial music composition. I would like to think
that we will advance together, each of us getting more proficient and
better able to communicate in music. I wanted to take this opportunity
to thank you for your work and dedication to your software. I'm sure
there are many more than me whose lives are enriched by you."

Ray A. – United States

I enjoy your newsletter, which contains much useful
information. I especially like your use of examples, which are very
helpful. Even presentation on subjects which are very basic contain
thoughts I find useful. Please keep up the good work.

Jack P. (United States)

Many thanks for your many
instructional notes on rudiments of music; these are very helpful and
inspirational to me. I have no intensions of unsubscribing from your
site.

Thomas S. (United States)

"I can now email music direct to the
friends I play music with. I really love Pizzicato. Good luck to you and
the programme."

Brenda R. - United States

"Thanks for all your help...and you never lost your
cool !"

Robin H. – United States

"I am very pleased with the way Pizzicato has been
structured. I was mainly looking to refresh all the music fundamentals,
esp Western music. It is done."

Krish M. - Canada

"My daughter and I had a great time composing a
song. I love this program."

Linda Z. - Canada

I am evaluating Pizzicato as an
alternative to F. N. software. N. is a simple note entry tool without
any interesting features while Pizzicato is a product of people who like
to test new ideas and features. I am a complete amateur composing short
songs with a few instruments in the background. I am not able to invest
very much in software. I have more time than money. I am working on a
Mac computer. Some of the ideas in Pizzicato are very interesting and I
try to spend as much time as possible evaluating the different features.

Boris S. - Finland

"I just wanted to write you guys a note and say
thank you for this briliant software. I sing in our local church choir,
and not being able to read music notes is a bit of a problem for me.
Until now, that is. You have no idea how good it feels to come home from
practice with the new notes, just type them in and play ! Bingo! It a
huge relief, because we only practice twice a week and the guy sitting
next to me can't really carry a tune (he just sings hum-hum-hum) and so
I have to rely on myself and I haven't really felt confident about it.
Now I have that confidence and I feel like I'm on top on the world ! I'm
thinking about upgrading, but for now I'm happy with my version ! I want
to thank you from the bottom of my heart ! Music is a language, and
until now Ihave only been able to speak it. Your program has helped me
to learn how to write and read it ! I still have a long way to go though
but, it's getting better and better. I downloaded another music program,
but it was just too complicated for me. Pizzicato is so easy, it's like
"music for dummies" but it still has all the functions you need for more
complicated work. I decide how easy or hard it is !"

Paula H. – Sweden

"I've been through many tutorials before—but for my
point of view this has got to be one of the best-written ones I've ever
seen ! It explains everything in an easy to understand step-by-step
description-- and I love the examples. There is enough repetition that
you really master the concepts, and yet it moves quickly."

Judy Z. – United States

"If you believe this much in your
program, then the least I can do is to use it !"

Amos A. C. G. - Mexico

It is necessary to learn to master a software like Pizzicato and I do
not handle it completely by now but I adopted it. Definitely. The method
is clear, but it is necessary to read courses again and then we memorize
it without thinking about memorization. I am sure that with the program
I will succdess in composing a melody with chords and rhytmic. I think
you did a great job.

Rico de P., France

"I am 88 years old. I took my first steps in music
2 years ago. I learnt at this time musical theory in the local brass
band. Now I learn there trumpet and xylophone. A visual handicap makes
score reading difficult to me and I also have deafness problems. I
teached during 70 years. It gives weight to my first note: I never met a
creation and training tool at the level of Pizzicato. It is only an
image (because we are not horses!), but certain horse-breakers control
and educate easily the most restive horses. Their action is based on the
respect of the codes used by the horses between them. Gestures so
discrete that the ordinary observer does not see them..

I observe that Pizzicato respects the "natural
codes of the users". This generous attention appears, inter alia, by a
lot of simple features; and this simplicity can only be the fruit of a
long work and a very large talent. I could align a lot of examples...

Case of the partially-sighted persons of all
levels, under consideration starting from my personal case: enlarging
the cursor for example lets me benefit fully from all the possibilities
of Pizzicato. A voice synthesis contributes to the reading of the
textual elements...

Case of the deaf persons: as they perceive the
vibrations with an extreme smoothness, they will use effectively and
with pleasure all the possibilities of Pizzicato.

In October, with Pizzicato I will be able to take
part in the repetitions of the brass band. An insane happiness of child!
Thank you for the share that I owe you.

Alfred B. - France

You created a wonderful too to help self taught
musicians and composers as I am. The paper user manual is helpful, well
written, detailed. For the first time, I am not discouraged while
consulting instructions for use. Pizzicato Pro has its cost but the
investment is useful. And I find great the fact that your share your
musical knowledge with your customers.

Nordin L., Paris, France

Thank you for the incredible software of Pizzicato
Professional! I've written a lot of music since the age of seven,
starting with the violin, then guitar and now piano. I've always had to
have someone do the notation for me. I've written a number of full
musicals this way. Now at the age of 52, with Pizzicato Professional, I
have the capability to not only do the notation myself but also the
initial arrangements. I bought the electronic download about a month
ago, the most current version, and I am in heaven!

What a joy!

Sherry P.R.

You may be interested to know that I am using
Pizzicato for an international project. Children from the school on
Tristan da Cunha have sent their poems for my own pupils here in England
to set to music. The resultant songs have gone back to the island as
Pizzicato files, and are now being sung there! Using the
same Pizzicato files, I am now creating a book of these songs
and this will be sold both here and on Tristan.

Tony D.T.

I'm really pleased I can now dowhat I
was struggling to do yesterday! Cheers.

Glenn B.

"Pizzicato beginner is just excellent
for helping me to practice my part in the choir."

Peter M. - United Kingdom

Thank you so much for your continued
efforts.

Kenneth J. - United States

"It is fabulous that you could help me
so quick when other scores programs makers never answer. Thank you again
!"

Florent B. - France

"I have just received and used your
music software for the first time, I am not an expert in writing music
but I found very easy to use and think this is an excellent product."

Ken H. - United Kingdtom

I use your software for my worship
ministry (choir) and I adapted a "Allelujah" which was composed by the
son of our organist. The result is very good and moreover can be
listened on the computer. I recommend your software to the musicians
that I know.

Suzanne T. - France

"Thank you so much for the Musical Newsletters
....current and archived. They bring so much more information and
pleasure to the exploration of music and are the perfect partner for the
excellent software."

Lionel W. – United Kingdom

"Congratulations! You seem to have combined the
best of several of these softwares into your Pizzicato. I´m amazed,
editing wav-file on sample-level ! I have used a software to "mess up"
my pieces - to make them sound more human, drawing velocity-curves,
drawing tempoadjustments like rubatos etc. The ability to store
musical ideas in a directory and then be able to adopt them rythmically
and harmonically - I will be able to shave a lot of time used for
tideous tasks like these... I´m very impressed with what You have
achieved and as soon as I can, I´ll buy my registred version. In the
meantime I´m further studying what Your software can do. Truly amazing
!"

Kjell B. – Sweden

"The main feature that made me decide in favour of
Piccicato is the fact that while you put the notes on the score, you can
hear them as well. This helps me very much to get familiar with the
notes and their sounds and produce nice and correct harmonic results. In
general, its editing capacities are very good. But, beside these
features, I saw a serious and constructive effort in general. Some other
softwares are too expensive for me and, for the time being at least, do
not offer something that I cannot find in Pizzicato. Further, I tried
also Noeteworthy composer, but its sound was rather poor. In total, I
tried for more than 2 months to end up with a software that covers my
needs. And its price is more than affordable."

Cristos L. – Greece

"I sometimes create songs with lyrics scores for an amateur theater
ensemble in my village. I must teach the songs to the actors and at the
beginning we have no scores. I also must do accompaniments. I used
another software before, but it could not associate notes and text, and
the page layout was rigid. I can do that with Pizzicato and it works
easily.

I also use Pizzicato to transcribe piano pieces with all the
different existing symbols or to compose little personal pieces. I also
saw that Pizzicato has more features than another well-known software
which is three times more expensive.

At Pizzicato you get a perfect service when you have questions (and I
had a lot), a very complete manual and a lot of other advantages, as
help to composition, music course and libraries. You can also adapt the
format, the fonts and the tools. As a conclusion, it is the best music
notation software for the cheapest price on the market. I wish you a lot
of success with Pizzicato."

"I am an amateur musician, aged of 61, retired but active : I play
piano (for 7 years), I am clavierist (in an instrumental ensemble) and
chorist (in another ensemble). I am using Pizzicato for all these
activities:

- for the choir, I encode the scores to play the bass part. I
simplify the score, adding lyrics below the notes

- for the ensemble, the "transposition" function is very useful
because it avoids me to modify the synthetizer options between different
pieces

- for the piano, I will soon use the SharpEye scanning software, to
memorize some rhythms more simply.

Congratulations for the quality of your software."

Jean-Claude Evenepoel (Grez-Doiceau, Belgium) - Pianist and chorist.

"Congratulations and thanks for giving us a very good
working tool which has already been of great help to me and will
continue to be, I am sure. Most interesting is to be able to directly
communicate with the publisher of Pizzicato."

Laurent Haye - Music teacher at the Music Conservatory of
Brussels (Belgium)

"Congratulations for the new version of Pizzicato. I
really enjoy working again with this new version."

"I am very satisfied with your Pizzicato software. Many
achievements were possible thanks to its flexibility and its simple,
effective logics."

Laurent Pigeolet - Professor at the Music Academy of
Ottignies (Belgium)

"Just whant to say thanks for the step by step
course. Very good exercises and you explain exact and its easy to
understand."

Uffe - Sweden

"You let me remember the joys of the
discovery that human being feels as a child."

Jean-Jacques C. - France

I find that you do an extraordinary
work, I feel a real musical passion in it and I like that.

Christiane D. – France

The way of representing the percussions on this
software is very interesting !

Charly D. – France

Congratulations about the quality of your software.
The new interface is more functional (and I can judge because I am a
designer). The composition aspects of the program interest me a lot.

Jean-Michel P. – France

I cannot use money to thank you otherwise you would
not have the satisfaction of the patient work made with a good heart,
but I know somebody (God, the Creator of the sky and the ground) who can
return the centuple of your professionalism. This one joint with my
perseverance produces the so much desired result.

Jean-Baptiste B. – Canada

Your software is interesting and very accessible! I
do not regret this purchase! Taken by time I did not have time to finish
all the handbook but I quickly wrote my first little score with success.

François B. – France

I greatly appreciate your quick reply!

John D.

Your products have been checked by more than 40
antivirus tools and they are safe.

The SharewarePlaza team

I think Pizzicato is a fantastic software that has
all the combined features of F..., E... and even C... and l am planning
to purchase the software sometimes in the near future.

Rene M.

Your software is amazing and can do a lot of things
connected to a MIDI keyboard. Not only in matter of composition but also
in harmonization.

Jacques C.

I thank you for the coupons in the framework of
your education program .One of my members is already in possession of
your professional version and it of it is very satisfied.

Pascal N.

I worked up to 2 A.M. with my new program and I
composed and printed a tango in two hours of time.

Felix E.

I will be able to present another impeccable score
at our chorus-singers. It is brilliant!

Alphonse C.

I had already acquired version 2 a few years ago
and had been rather satisfied. I discovered the new version which is a
very beautiful evolution. My needs are those of a choir director who
does not have much time to make the training of the scores because some
chorists do not memorize them easily. I was searching to record
separated voices without spending too much time. With the graphic mode
it is much faster.

Jean-Luc A.

It is not the first time that
I am pleased to have chosen your product more than 10 years ago. If all
the providers could work as you it would be a real pleasure for us the
users. Congratulations.

Willy M.

"You are the best company I have worked with."

Howell C.

"I would like to express my appreciation for your
very informative email. They are a joy to receive and keep each one to
read and read again. Please don't stop sending them."

Robert B.

"I have much pleasure in legibly copying scores for our
choir."

Edmond S.

"Indeed, I use this program more and more and I find
that it is terribly well done! It should be said that since its
purchase, I have enjoyed this software very much, both for its easy use
and for its advanced functions. Well done for the follow-up and the
evolution of this excellent software."

Johann S.

"This program already allowed me to compose and
transcribe a large number of pieces, and I think it is very complete and
well conceived. I have been a Pizzicato user for three years now. Each
day I discover new functions of the program and I control it better and
better. It already helped me for many transcriptions and personal
compositions, so I can only say to you: thank you."

Arnaud C.

"During the holidays of July 1999, when I had just
retired, I studied the software and I was immediately enthusiastic about
it."

Eugene V.

"Pizzicato was already fantastic, so how will be
Pizzicato 2 ? You rarely see a software designed with such a care, I
congratulate you and I look forward to receiveing this new version."

Emmanuel N.

"The Pizzicato software surprised me both by its easy
use and the power of its functions."

Marc L.

"I am extremely satisfied with your software which is
really powerful. Your manual is very well designed, even for ignorant
about computers like me. Indeed, up to now I had never had the
opportunity to touch a computer."

Sister Marcelle

"Congratulations for the quality and the presentation of
your wonderful product. I am very satisfied to have chosen Pizzicato.
Never did I receive such a fast response with a clear and full
explanation."

Willi M.

"I find Pizzicato as user-friendly to use and manage
than my multimedia PC. In short, a considerably precise work enabling an
always growing recreation. It is a beautiful success. The problem: my
wife has an additional rival at home."

Alain L.

"Congratulations for the presentation and the very
practical manual. It is a remarkable work."

Jean-Louis F.

"We bought Pizzicato a few time ago. We are satisfied
with your program and we recommend it to other monastic communities.
Thank you for the services this program provides us with."

Sister Emmanuelle

"Since a few weeks, I possess Pizzicato version 2 and I
am very satisfied with it. I have better appreciated to work with
Pizzicato since the change of environment."

Christian B.

"Thanks again for the update of Pizzicato: it is really
pleasant to work this way! To manufacture that, it was necessary to
think of so many details...! Page layout is also well simplified!"

Marie-Christine

"Congratulations for the new version of your software.
Its alignment to the usual functions of Windows simplifies its use a
lot."

José R.

"In the field of composition, the range of software
tools seems to me very reduced. Congratulation to have tried to fill
this vacuum. Also for the documentation which is remarkable."

Abert G.

"I use Pizzicato with much pleasure. Congratulations for
your site and see you soon on the Internet."

Alain V.C.

"I want to express my satisfaction regarding this
program that brings me as well pleasure than facilities. I look forward
to discovering version 2."

Yoland M.

"Knowing already Pizzicato Beginner - which I want to
mention, is a well-designed program - I would like to update to the full
version."

Vincent G.

"Wonderful site! I bought Pizzicato on the first day of
its publishing. This program is as wonderful as unknown. I really hope
this site will increase the Pizzicato user's community."

Frédéric H.

"I thank you for the assistance you bring to musicians
and other music lovers by the way of a complete and instructive
program."

Françoise B.

"I personally want to congratulate you for the beautiful
program you conceived, namely Pizzicato. It directly appealed to me by
its simplicity of use and its possibilities."

Bruno R.

"Congratulations for Pizzicato. I have now a program to
learn music and avoid the multimedia silliness like Learn music in the
intergalactic spaceship of Dr musicos."

Christophe T.

"Finally, we encourage you to continue your research
work. Globally, we are very pleased about this program and we find the
user manual very well done."

Vincianne

"Pizzicato is already a splendid companion, it can
become it more. You have to estimate, but no well known has up to now
really approached (or dared to approach...) composition. To you goes the
merit of the originality in the design."

André V.

"Globally, I am delighted by this program and I do not
regret at all this purchase. The musicians for whom I write scores are
also pleased."

Patrick T.

We thank the users for their congratulations and
encouragements.

We engage ourselves to continue developing Pizzicato in
the direction of an ideal computer assisted music software.